Most catastrophic equipment failure

[Sk.A.T.A.N]

He couldn't cut it in half and have a racing stripe down the middle?

So funny thing was, I actually ate shit and busted my chin open about the same time he broke his board. So when they went to the shop I was trying to find a Pharmacy to get something to clean the wound. Once I was done I went to meet up with them at the shop and he was already setting it up with that grim as fuck grip and the stickers. First thing I said was exactly that “you could split the black griptape in half”, but sometimes he’s not the smartest. My friends were just laughing at it from how bad it was. It looked like a nascar car behind a foggy glass and glue stains from the clear grip... kinda glad it only lasted 1 sesh. 

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my fisheye came apart during a skate trip to SF, Aperture ring was stuck at F22 and was beginning to detach as well. wasnt too stoked also considering that my Super 8 camera worked for the two weeks prior to our trip and then shit the bed the night before smh

[IpathCats]

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I had one of those hardware size axle nuts on Ace's fly off while filming my friend at the brooklyn banks. Made for a pretty funny shot at least with me slamming with the camera. My other friend was skating a super old set of Ace's that day, had already cracked the hangar. On our way from the banks to LES his hangar finally snapped just skating on some rough sidewalk or something. I looked back and he was down. Glad I told him to bring his new set, or his day would've been over. Lots of ace stories on here haha. What people will put themselves through for a good turn......

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Aren't they just a replica of the stage 3's. I understand the hanger one but the hardware wheel nut is still mind boggling.

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There wasn't even any nylon to lock those nuts on lol. Ace QC was notoriously bad at first. They've gotten better, but they've still got a couple kinks to work out. Their consistency is much better now, but the hangars still bend more easily than other trucks, and the pivot cups are horrible. Hopefully the new ones coming out in spring address this issues along with the other improvements.

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Are the pivot cups still shit? I remember blowing mine in like 2 months of skating which is not usual at all for me, and this was like 4/5 years ago. That and slipping both axles also maybe after 4 months of riding them. Never retired trucks so early. I wanna try Aces again but am kinda sketched out by the shitty QC they had in the past.

They improved them, but they're still not great. Get riptides, and never go back. I have them in all my boards.

[smellsdead]

royals broke while i was pushing

not like mike v pushing either

[Sandygoat]

my fisheye came apart during a skate trip to SF, Aperture ring was stuck at F22 and was beginning to detach as well. wasnt too stoked also considering that my Super 8 camera worked for the two weeks prior to our trip and then shit the bed the night before smh

How is it being a " Professional" filmer ( I put into quotes just in case if you are not one)? I always see clips were the camera gets smashed and then the filmer just keeps trucking. It seems that the only thing that breaks them is an act of god.

[Krooked antihero]

I actually never had anything that bad, but I’ve seen some funny ones...

Once I was with some friends hill bombing this mellow hill but super long. I was kinda in the zone just cruising and then I see this wheel passing by me. I look back and my friend was just getting up from falling because his wheel fell off, he then proceed to sprint after the wheel the whole way down the hill and that was pretty hilarious ahah.

Other wheel issue, I was at this spot that has kind of a kicker and my friend is trying a hardflip. He’s close to land it but then in one of his tries the axle nut falls of and sends one of his brand new wheels flying over the fence into this huge drop. Down there it’s like a death corner train track into a tunnel. So like, no way we would try to go grab the wheel. He was so pissed because he’s always running the shittiest hand me down stuff and he just caved in to buy that expensive set of Bones wheels. He got lucky because I had 1 brand new wheel at home from a set of 4 + 1 wheels that I got once. They were the same size too, just thinner shape. But it was funny to see the wheels wearing down differently, probably because of different duro.
Wait, I actually have footy of that:

The other day I also saw this dude literally breaking a chunk off of the heel of his adidas city cups. It was so weird. Like half of his heel went flying and it broke like twig, skating flatground. Funny that once a Pal (I don’t recall who it was) also sent me a picture of his busenitz pro’s that broke in a really similar way.

Last but not least. Last year we’re at this 3 day skate trip in Prague we did between work friends. First day, late afternoon, my mate is trying this kickflip from a kicker at Stalin Platz and lands straight in the tail, snaps it. We try to go to find a skateshop that is still open to get a deck, we find this kinda shitty mall shop. He only rides the oldschool Winkowski Santa Cruz shape and they had one, but it was like 95€. He’s like “fuck it, I’ll get it anyway”. But they don’t have grip tape wide enough, only clear griptape and it was like 10€, So he gets fucking clear griptape and proceeds to do the wackiest sticker job behind it. I swear, that shit was grim. Ahah.
The day after is raining so we go to the only “indoor” park and skate there. My friend spends the whole afternoon trying a 50-50 flip out on this shitty ledge, then lands it and snaps his tail. You can see he is so pissed. Throws the board away in anger and we are just all laughing. The last day he’s riding the only spare deck we had with us that was like a used 8.0 on his 169 indys with huge wheels, and like a size 12 foot. That shit looked so ridiculous, I couldn’t stop making fun of him ahah.

It was me. Funny thing is that I shoe goo’ed that piece back and rocking those shoes sometimes still. Came to wrote about this actually, glad I took some time to read thru whole thread before posting. I also have a bad experiences with Spitfire in the past, cored and F1’s.

e. Fuck it, I have had and seen so many epic failures during all these years I might as well share some: I think worst piece of crap I’ve ever seen was Titan trucks, homie snapped those in half trying to learn kickflip on flat.
First batch of Fallen shoes was defect as hell too, soles came off just by walking. Once I broke 6/8 Reds in first session. Snapped two Quasis in a row also on first session. Once skating in cold my griptape came of while flicking flip, just like in Cliche’s Europe,ate shit. Once on a trip I got indy bolt so jammed I had to broke a corner off my baseplate to change board to keep skating. And there’s like million more of these stories...😅

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was skating a random backup board just to go to the store, and the nut came off the truck as I was ollieing a manhole cover, so I ate shit as soon as i landed and was just totally unprepared for it.

[spacial_profiling]

Skating down an overpass and my Hubba wheel unwinding from around the core.

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my fisheye came apart during a skate trip to SF, Aperture ring was stuck at F22 and was beginning to detach as well. wasnt too stoked also considering that my Super 8 camera worked for the two weeks prior to our trip and then shit the bed the night before smh

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How is it being a " Professional" filmer ( I put into quotes just in case if you are not one)? I always see clips were the camera gets smashed and then the filmer just keeps trucking. It seems that the only thing that breaks them is an act of god.

i'm definitely not a professional filmer although that would be tight. I just film homie videos with my friends for fun and if it works out then it works out, but its not my primary focus so idc really. lens hits and any type of film equipment failure sucks. Breaking fisheyes is probably the worst shit considering how expensive they are. one little lens hit will cost you anywhere from probably $400 for a DSLR fisheye to around $2000 for one of those fisheyes people use on the HPX's. I feel terrible for anyone who smashes the fisheye on an HPX

as far as film prep goes, you gotta makes sure you empty out your memory cards before each day you go filming. If you're a vx user, you gotta have extra tapes handy. you gotta make sure you have multiple batteries charged, as well as bringing misc items like extra laces, wax, bondo, broom, tools, etc. for the mission.

Also - more than likely as the filmer that you're the one finding spots and planning out the day. props to any skaters that already know the spot they want to get a clip on since that makes it easier to plan around.

[Sandygoat]

I've always wondered how it is to be a filmer. I want to try but I dont really skate with anybody :*(

[Prostate Exam]

Ace's pivot cups fail every time on me. I can't see myself riding any other truck than my beloved Ace 66s but I hope the next iteration has fixed that problem.
Especially when you like your trucks loose, the pivot cups become soft and loose after time to the point where the baseplate starts stripping.

[slappy50]

funny that y’all say riptides are the truth... i had riptides in my ace 55s for about a month or two and felt like it wasn’t turning at all... i popped the stock ones in and it’s been pretty smooth sailing from there, occasionally put dawn dish soap in the pivot cups when they get really loud but other than that i just leave em alone lol. best turn tho..

my contribution to this thread is this one morning i was skating at my local and this older guy is warming up, and then he goes to this funny ledge thing we have at our park that is like a little curb drop to a ledge drop a few feet later. so the guy goes to roll off the little curb thing and his wheel comes off, and flies backwards to underneath this wooden platform at our park that’s like 5 or 6 feet deep and barely tall enough to reach under... so this guys brand new fresh spitfire f4s go under the wooden ledge and i think it might still be there. he messed up his shoulder pretty bad too from falling on it... the paramedics were there and everything. definitely one of the more interesting park sessions i’ve been to

[Glurmpz]

Only thing I can really think of was when I used to ride Indy's from around 1991 - 1999. I had plenty of kingpins break out of the blue sending me flying. I can still remember one such instance when I was just ollieing up a curb but my truck fell off and I got pitched. Always seemed like they must have cracked most of the way on something else and then finally gave out when I wasn't doing anything big, so I wasn't expecting it. Then around late 99/2000 all Indy's axles started bending when they were brand new. Like, really bending. That was it for Indy for me. Went Thunder until just this year when I decided to try out a new set of hollow forged Indy's. Going ok so far.

[Shifty Flip]

My neighbor was riding his brand new G&S trucks. They were so light, he could launch double high that day.  Can't remember how long it took, but it was before the sun went down.  He blasted a big method 360, which he could never land before, stuck it, you could see his face just light up with glee, an inch later boom, immediate stop and pitch to chin plant.  Blood gusher.  Both trucks broke. Where the plastic meet the metal on the hanger. Who would've thought? 

[IpathCats]

Ace's pivot cups fail every time on me. I can't see myself riding any other truck than my beloved Ace 66s but I hope the next iteration has fixed that problem.
Especially when you like your trucks loose, the pivot cups become soft and loose after time to the point where the baseplate starts stripping.

https://www.riptidesports.com/pivot-cups/ace-pivot-cup/